water cooling necessities

craeb

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When watching videos on water cooling you see people water cooling just about everything. When overclocking what really needs to be water cooled due to the extra heat created by overclocking?
 
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With a good air cooler and a good enough case (Good airflow) you don't need to water cool. Water cooling has it's perks but it also has its downfalls. I just installed my first water cooler in a PC and I only did so because it's a mini ITX build (limited space) and I wanted to OC so the water cooler draws the heat away from my CPU and MOBO better (relocates it) and also allowed me to use non low profile ram....

long story short, I personally wouldn't water cool unless you have a specific situation that requires it. With a good quality air cooler you'll run almost the same temps
With a good air cooler and a good enough case (Good airflow) you don't need to water cool. Water cooling has it's perks but it also has its downfalls. I just installed my first water cooler in a PC and I only did so because it's a mini ITX build (limited space) and I wanted to OC so the water cooler draws the heat away from my CPU and MOBO better (relocates it) and also allowed me to use non low profile ram....

long story short, I personally wouldn't water cool unless you have a specific situation that requires it. With a good quality air cooler you'll run almost the same temps
 
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Thanks for your input. Right now I'm collecting info and ideas for a new build both air cooled, water cooled, etc. The fans I wanted are no longer produced, so I like both bgears and corsair performance 120mm fans.
 
Nothing needs to be water-cooled if you running a reasonable overclock. Its only when your pushing very high clockspeeds (or you have some other reason like noise or space constraints) that you need to get yourself a custom loop. Even then its a matter of how hot you are willing to let something run.

CLC coolers in general I think arent useful except in space constrained situations, they perform similarly to equivalent air-coolers.
 
Mainly the CPU and graphics card, ram and the VRM really do fine with the heat sinks. The reason many people WC with an AIO is because of the weight of big air coolers. But cheap set ups give moderate to good performance just like air

Yet overall they give good temps with moderate noise.